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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a
reader to the dictionary."
-- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
-- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading
it."
-- Moses Hadas
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
-- Winston Churchill
"A modest little person with much to be modest about."
-- Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great
pleasure."
-- Clarence Darrow
"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
-- Samuel Johnson
"He had delusions of adequacy."
-- Walter Kerr
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
-- Groucho Marx
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human
knowledge."
-- Thomas Brackett Reed
"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by
diligent, hard work he overcame them."
-- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
-- Charles, Count Talleyrand
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of
it."
-- Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-- Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-- Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play. Bring a
friend ... if you have one."
-- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second ... if there is
one."
-- Winston Churchill, in reply
"A sheep in sheep's clothing."
-- Winston Churchill on Clement Atlee
"There but for the grace of God goes God."
-- Winston Churchill on Stafford Cripps
"He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and
hurried on as if nothing had happened."
-- Winston Churchill, on Stanley Baldwin
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